CHAPTER XXI

THROUGH   THE   HINTERLAND

CHIEFS AND TREATIES—{continued)

With the end of the last chapter we had arrived in the
Vassa country. A picture is here shown (Figure 63) of
four Bundu girls photographed in Vassa, which is some
seventy miles further inland from Juru. Upon referring
to Figure 34 the difference in the style of hair-dressing
in these two countries will be seen at a glance. The
foundation of the coiffure is most elaborate plaiting, upon
which is built up this extraordinary structure; here again
we have the bunches of Bundu medicine seeds already
mentioned. The prominent difference in the hair-dressing
of this country is, that it is done up to present a full and
broad front, extending from ear to ear, the high coiffure slant¬
ing back at a considerable angle. jThree of these girls are
wearing rope-like necklaces, which are made from very fine
flexible cane bugles, dyed red with camwood and threaded.
Earrings are worn ; they are three pieces of a thin similarly
dyed cane, forming a triangle. The forehead of the girl to
the right of the picture is heavily dressed with the country
wojeh, and each carries over her right shoulder many
fetishes   belonging   to   the   Bundu  order.    It  is  a  very

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